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November 2011

A meeting of IPPOG, the International Particle Physics Outreach Group, was held at CERN on Friday and Saturday last week. Representatives from each of the CERN member states and CERN experiments discussed the...

In the early hours of Sunday 6 November 2011, the LHC provided the first lead ion collisions of the year. ALICE recorded several thousands of collision events – an accomplishment that required a full year of preparation...

The first time we met, Helena was being dragged around the port-a-cabin at the end of October’s Point 2 party. It was her first day and Carnita, one of our other tremendously helpful secretaries, was dutifully introducing...

On Monday November 14th the LHC begins heavy ion physics, the process of colliding lead ions. Amy Dusto, from the blog symmetry breaking, reports for ALICE Matters on what it really takes to put lead beams in the LHC...

Since 2008 two awards are given once a year for the most outstanding PhD thesis by members of the ALICE Collaboration in the field of physics and instrumentation, respectively. The awards celebrate the excellence...

Over the summer, upon request of our spokesperson, we started to work on branding and visual identity for the experiment. It immediately became clear that one of the first items to look at was our logo. We examined the...

“LHC” by Peter Ginter, one of the world's best photographers, author Franzobel, and Rolf Dieter Heuer, Director General of CERN, is a coffee table staple that would make a good Christmas present for friends and family...

Cuba. Most people’s minds will jump to the 1959 revolution, Guantanamo Bay or the US embargo. In antithesis, other peoples’ minds jump to cigars, rum, and the delicious Caribbean Sea lapping on the shores of perfectly white...

The data taking started on the night between November 5-6 when test beams were injected and brought to collisions. The number of events were few, around 10,000, but extremely useful for debugging the complicated...

Our colleague Anna Piccotti passed away on November 15th as a result of a car accident she suffered a few days before. Her husband and two young sons survived. Active in the field of heavy-ion physics since the early...